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“The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the Earth. As soon as we isolate ourselves from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within us, then our basic life-satisfactions are diminished. None of our machine-made products, none of our computer-based achievements can evoke that total commitment to life.”

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.”

Happens Grows Technology Industry Computer Innovation Fundamentals New Things Complacency Microsoft Ibm Predicting The Future Microprocessor

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That's how wiki came about.”

Different Wanted Used Grows Computer Faster Software Frustrated Hardware Computer Software

Author:Ward Cunningham

“Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.”

Source: Childhood's Future

“If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.”

Ifs Needs Trying Two Jobs Used Grows Answers Greater Computer Bigger Parallels Oxen

Author:Grace Hopper

“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”

Thinking World Want Kids Age Today School Grows Can Do Hours Growing Up Computer Birthday 60th Birthday Curfew

Author:James Hillman

“This new England we have invented for ourselves is not interested at all in education. It is only interested in training, both material and spiritual. Education means freedom, it means ideas, it means truth. Training is what you do to a pear tree when you pleach it and prune it to grow against a wall. Training is what you give an airline pilot or a computer operator or a barrister or a radio producer. Education is what you give children to enable them to be free from the prejudices and moral bankruptcies of their elders.”

“I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.”

“Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.”

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Author:Ralph Merkle

“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.”

Ifs Knows Grows Air Computer Floats Every Second

Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

“Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.”

May Grows Sports Class Growing Up Computer Novelists Filmmaker Ruling Athletic Outcast Tycoons

Book:George Will vs. Nick Hornby: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Source: George Will vs. Nick Hornby: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs